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| | 02 Jul 2004
Professor Jon King, director of Corus Automotive, has officially opened the new Automotive Engineering Centre (AEC) at the University of Hertfordshire (26 June 2003). The new centre introduces modern facilities in automotive engineering design and technology for undergraduate courses and post-graduate research
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| | 16 Dec 2003
Corus, the international metals group, has announced that it is supplying Audi's new Lamborghini Gallardo with the world's first production ready aluminium tailor welded blank designed to help the car maker further reduce vehicle body weight and assembly costs.
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| | 12 Nov 2003
A ground-breaking new design of wheel disc for off-highway vehicles has been developed by Telford-based GKN Wheels, Corus and SSAB Swedish Steel, using advanced high strength steels (HSS) that are up to four times stronger than ordinary mild steel.
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| | 23 Oct 2003
Corus has successfully developed a range of new, extremely clean steels that will help manufacturers of the latest generation of diesel fuel injection systems meet the growing demand from carmakers for improvements in performance, fuel efficiency and cost.
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| | 07 Oct 2003
Corus has won the contract to supply LTI Vehicles with 100 per cent of its skin panel steel blank requirements...
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| | 23 Sep 2003
Meng Feng Hseih was awarded the ‘Best Vehicle Design’ accolade in the Corus sponsored ‘Streets Ahead’, the private view of the Coventry University MA Automotive Design Show 2003. The winning design was selected from a line-up of twenty-six international students by a distinguished judging panel, which included Peter Horbury, executive director of design at Ford’s Premier Automotive Group.
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| | 16 Sep 2003
Corus hosted a World Class Network (WCN) seminar in association with Birmingham’s Technology Innovation Centre (tic) on future steel technologies at the company’s Automotive Service Centre in Wolverhampton last Thursday 11 September.
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| | 07 Aug 2003
Corus has announced that its Strip Products UK business based in South Wales and its specialist laser welding facility, Autolaser Technologies, in Wednesfield, West Midlands have acquired certification to the new ISO/TS 16949: 2002 quality approval standard.
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| | 26 Jul 2003
Corus has successfully developed an aluminium tube which is suitable for hydroforming.
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| | 28 May 2003
Corus, the international metals company, has announced that it is to establish a Just-in-Time (JIT) supply facility in Coventry.
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| | 14 May 2003
Corus has won a contract to supply Ford with its advanced Neotec steel...
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| | 07 Apr 2003
Corus has announced that it is commissioning a new research and development facility for studying the next generation of automotive laser welding and brazing techniques. The new facility will be based at the company’s R&D centre in IJmuiden in the Netherlands and already has a full schedule of Automotive R&D programmes.
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| | 28 Mar 2003
Corus invests in additional steel blanking line to help meet 100% supply contract for Mayflower Vehicle Systems
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| | 27 Mar 2003
Corus has officially commissioned its new Continuous Annealing and Pre-treatment (CAPL) line, which has been specifically designed for the process and production of high-quality aluminium coil for use in the automotive industry
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| | 03 Mar 2003
Fractim is a new steel that has been developed by Engineering steels for use primarily in connecting rods for engines. The properties of this new product not only afford greater machinability, but also allow the connecting rod to be split, or fractured, to create a matching connecting rod and cap. This gives significant cost savings as well as improved performance in use.
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| | 07 Jan 2003
Corus and Sumitomo have agreed to speed up development of new products following their first year of successful collaboration.
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